Media

podcasts & video interviews

text interviews

  • What is more real, beauty or my shoes?

    Thoughts on Evolutions / Beata Grobenski

    February 5, 2025

    A long-form text interview on beauty, vasocomputation, consciousness, symmetry, memory, and phenomenology.

press coverage

  • June 11, 2025

    Coverage of the Worthy Successor symposium, including Michael Edward Johnson’s argument that consciousness is the home of value and that building AI without understanding it risks either creating suffering or trusting systems without experience.

talks & presentations

  • Branchial Space Ecology - Mike Johnson

    California Institute for Machine Consciousness / MC0001

    May 29–31, 2026 · posted August 3, 2026 · 20 min

    A talk proposing branchial space as a container for knowledge about consciousness, with brains, computers, and other physical systems classified by their branching structure.

  • @Edge City Lanna: The games of life

    Triplicate / AI x Neuro: Mindful Alignment

    November 2, 2024 · posted November 26, 2024 · 48 min

    A presentation introducing vasocomputation and its implications for neuroscience, contemplative practice, and embodied cognition.

  • June 10–16, 2024 · posted July 29, 2024 · 34 min

    A LabWeek talk on neurotechnology as applied philosophy, pre-paradigmatic neuroscience, and bioelectric approaches to medicine.

  • @ZuConnect: Future neurotech

    ZuConnect Istanbul / StreamETH

    ZuConnect Istanbul · October 31, 2023 · posted January 30, 2024 · 6 min

    Neurotechnology’s relevance to AI safety and progress.

  • A talk on the limits of utility-function language in AI alignment and the need for a phenomenology-grounded science of consciousness.

  • The neuroscience of meditation

    Meditation & Science Jam 2019

    February 7–10, 2019 · posted February 19, 2019 · 1 hr

    A presentation connecting predictive coding, connectome-specific harmonic waves, and neural annealing to meditation.